Pont du Gard

The Pont du Gard in Provence, in the French département of Gard near Nîmes and Uzès, is part of a Roman aqueduct about 50 km long that carried water from a spring near Uzès to Nîmes, ancient Nemausus, from the middle of the 1st century and remained in use until about the start of the 6th century. The bridge is just under 49 m high and has three tiers of arches, 52 in all; the top tier measures about 275 m today, originally around 360 m. It has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1985.

You can walk across the bridge and view models and reconstructions in the museum. According to Lonely Planet, the best view of the bridge is downstream, from the roughly 1.4 km “Mémoires de Garrigue” trail on the left bank, which leads in about an hour through the typical scrubland of the garrigue. A guided tour also lets you walk the top tier, where the water once flowed. In summer the right bank of the Gardon becomes a bathing beach.

Allow at least an hour and a half, or a whole day with walking and swimming. Lonely Planet recommends early evening, because the bridge is illuminated after dark; check this in advance (as of October 2026). Guarded car parks lie on both banks.